Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Ice Fishing

We were invited by our wonderful neighbors to go Ice Fishing. In my head I thought, "an iced over lake and JJ, not a good combo" so J and Sis went, while the boys and I stayed home. Boy, did they have an adventure!! They couldn't find the reservoir and asked like 5 different people before they finally found it, and during that time they got the 4x4 Yukon stuck in a couple of feet of snow and had to ask a nearby house to pull them out. When they finally got there they said it was so warm and nice they were able to take their coats off and enjoy. Our neighbors had purchased a hand drill and they were able to drill two holes into the ice in something like a half an hour so they asked a fellow fisherman to drill some holes for them with his power drill and they had 5 new holes in about 3 minutes!!! Sis' favorite part was getting the ice chunks out of the hole with the strainer! When they were done and packing up, Sis managed to step into one of the holes and had to strip off her boot and socks and our neighbor gave her a mitten to put on her foot and then one of the neighbor's daughters stepped into another hole that had been partly covered up!!! Things just kept getting better!! So they finally made it home, about 3 hours later than they said, with no fish to show for it!! But with a ton of fun memories!! Both Sis and J are excited to go again, I on the other hand, will probably offer to stay home with the boys where it's safe and dry!!!